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...assumed the heroine's choice was between two handsome suitors. She had not read Styron's book or seen Meryl Streep's harrowing, Oscar-winning performance in the 1982 film. But she accepted without hesitation. With relatively few leading roles for mezzos - most of the celebrated heroines are sung by sopranos - how could she turn down a major new part tailored to her voice, let alone one that would give her the chance to make her Covent Garden debut? Then she read the book. "I was a little bit anxious," she recalls, struggling to find the words in English...
...that the song was “What Child Is This?” rendered unrecognizeable by the warbling of a female vocalist. And I will try unsuccessfully to reconcile this Christmas carol with the Christmas carol of the same name and roughly the same tune that I have sung in the Rooster Church. It is a horrible shock, like recognizing the features of a grade school friend behind the heavy makeup of one of those young women who loiters in the mall food court. The worst part of the shock is realizing that the potential for cheapness lurked...
...which my family puts leaves in our dining room table and uses all four of the stove burners at the same time. It is the holiday richest with ritual. And carols epitomize Christmas ritual: I love them not for the way they sound but for the way they are sung in the Rooster Church in December, when everyone’s voices blend to share the “Coventry Carol” as it has been shared since the sixteenth century...
...Professor Hahm Sung Deuk, a political expert at Korea University, says Kim Jong Il, by demonstrating once again how unpredictable and creepy his regime is, may have given Lee a boost with voters, helping to validate his view of the Sunshine Policy as naive appeasement. Certainly the hard-line stance resonates with older citizens, who still remember the horrors of the Korean...
...definitely out of the blue. They’ve called and asked as many people as they can find to try to come down,” said Harris, who has sung in several Harvard productions including Merrily We Row Along and last year’s Dot-comedy...